Re: CGIs with OSX
Re: CGIs with OSX
- Subject: Re: CGIs with OSX
- From: Timothy Bates <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 16:32:27 +1000
On 3/25/01 3:11 PM, "email@hidden" <email@hidden> wrote:
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At the level of Documents is another folder name "CGI-Executables". I am
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trying to run an Applescript CGI which is known to be good under MacOS 9.1. I
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recompiled and saved it as an OSX Applet (using both Script Editor from 9.1
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and from OSX). But I cannot make it work.
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I have tried ".cgi" and ".acgi" extensions.
need to associate the extension with appleScript.
I believe you do this by editing the httpd.conf file
normally this is in
/www/conf/
god knows where apple will have put it. You will need to be root to see it
and edit it.
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If I use "get" and the CGI is in the same directory as the calling page, I
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get this odd response - "Joy!peffpwpc". Post gives me a "Method Not Allowed"
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message.
I think Joy is a scripting language under cocoa.
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To make matters more confusing, there is a file named "About Personal
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WebSharing.htm" at the root of FreeDome (FreeDome was a pure, empty partition
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prior to the OSX install) which says, "To install Personal Web Sharing,
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double-click the WebScript icon." Problem is, there is no "WebScript icon"
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anywhere to be found.
I think this is a booboo. Apache is the webserver. I think that apple have
added acgi protocol to apache, but cannot be sure.
tim
Dr Timothy Bates <
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Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (MACCS)
Macquarie University
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